Posts tagged with Duncan MacKenzie

A 29-year-old man has been granted bail "by the smallest of margins" after pleading guilty to assaulting his partner.
Wayne Hunter, of Wista, Lerwick, admitted seizing his partner by the throat and pushing her against a wall when he appeared at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
The offence occ... Read more...

Bad blood between two men resulted in a fight – and ended with one of them being knocked unconscious.
Lerwick resident George Birse knocked out his rival after the two "hot-blooded males with too much drink" got into a drunken scrap in the town's Commercial Road.
The incident happened on 22n... Read more...

A man was spotted breaking into his old home after drinking Prosecco wine – just one day after he sold the house.
Lewis Charles Sykes, 26, now of Hillside Brae in Gulberwick, sold his house at Longland, Lerwick in December.
But neighbours were woken in the early hours by the sound of breakin... Read more...

A Lerwick man has had his £10,000 car taken off him and been banned for two years after driving while almost six times the alcohol limit.
Andrew Brent Georgeson, 57, of Lower Sound, previously admitted driving at Tesco and elsewhere with 131 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
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An offshore worker was fined nearly £1,000 on Tuesday after he admitted a racially aggravated assault on a bouncer when trying to get into Da Wheel Bar in Lerwick.
Tysen Carthy, of Primrose Lane, Houghton Le Spring, Sunderland, was in Shetland overnight because his offshore flight had been cance... Read more...

A man who assaulted and disfigured another man by punching him in the face so hard he had to have his cheekbone reconstructed has been imprisoned for three years.
Damian Hunt, 32, appeared from custody on Tuesday, to be sentenced for assaulting his victim at Kirkabister, North-a-Voe in Yell on 8t... Read more...

A man who exposed himself at the Northern Lights Hotel and Mid Brae Inn has been fined £300 for his "disgusting" behaviour.
Lee Waagenes, 22, of Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire in Wales, was one of a trio of men who admitted pulling down their clothing and exposing their penises at the Brae waterin... Read more...

A man who admitted breach of the peace by brandishing a hammer while behaving in a threatening and abusive manner has had his sentence deferred for a social work report.
Adam Nelson, 27, was due to stand trial at Lerwick Sheriff Court today but instead pleaded guilty to the offence, which took pl... Read more...

Shouting a "religiously offensive" remark at police and acting in a threatening or abusive manner cost a man £150 at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
Ross Robert Morrison, 43, of Union Street, Lerwick, admitted breaching the peace on 10th October by walking towards a police car and shouting whi... Read more...